DAVID HIROSHI JAGER
Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in…
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Realism’s Latest Moment Suggests Tensions Between the Representational and the Surreal
What’s driving the renewed fascination with the representational? The fact that realism is, for better or for worse, the chosen visual idiom of AI offers a clue.
A Glimpse Into the Origins of the ‘Pictures Generation’ Fomented by Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo
A new show contains rarely-seen archival material, artworks, video, and film from the movement that would eventually explode into the circus of the 1980s art world.
David Salle, Poster Boy of the Post Modern, Embraces the Vocabulary of the Digital Age
Salle seems interested in showing us the myriad ways in which painting can engage the act of seeing.
Painter Jon Serl, Once Seen as an Outlier, Shines as an Idiosyncratic Master in ‘No Straight Lines’
Serl’s compositions hover somewhere between folkloric symbolism and magical realism, all rendered in a visual language that is stubbornly naïve.
Richard Tuttle, Celebrated for His Achingly Spare Compositions, Offers Bolder Investigations in His ‘Prong’ Series
Tuttle’s body of sculpture and painting is part of an ongoing improvisational fugue started in the 1960s.
A Sprawling, Brain-Melting Smorgasbord, New York’s Armory Show Returns for Its 30th Anniversary
It’s hard to explain how something could be both overstuffed and underwhelming at the same time, yet this year’s Armory feels less like a sophisticated showcase and more of a trade show.
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